The Boston Globe reported Wednesday that the NFL Players Association, as expected, is fighting for Aaron Hernandez to get the salary it feels he is owed.

Hernandez, the former tight end from Bristol, is sitting in a Massachusetts jail cell on murder and weapons charges. He was suspended indefinitely by NFL commissioner Roger Goodell.

The Globe cited a league source who said the NFLPA filed two grievances against the Patriots. The first, according to The Globe, was to make the team pay a signing bonus payment due in March. The second is to make the team pay his guaranteed money for this season and next, according to the contract he signed in 2012.

The Globe reported that the NFLPA is fighting for Hernandez to collect $6.292 million in guaranteed money from the Patriots: base salaries of $1.323 million and $1.137 million in 2013 and 2014, an $82,000 workout bonus from this year, a $500,000 workout bonus next year, and a $3.25 million signing bonus payment that is due March 31, 2014.

The Patriots terminated Hernandez’s contract less than two hours after he was arrested, but before he had been formally charged with murder and before his suspension from Goodell.

According to The Globe, the NFLPA will argue that the Patriots cut Hernandez “for skill or performance, salary-cap reasons, or injury,” which should entitle him to the guaranteed money in his contract.

The Globe said Patriots declined to comment Wednesday, but have previously said that they believe they are entitled to withhold all future payments because Hernandez’s arrest in connection with a murder, in their view, grossly violated his contract and the NFL’s player conduct policy.